The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 79
‘That’s a full-grown colt,’ said Dapplegrim, ‘if you hear it so plainly when it is so far away from us.’
Who acts: That, grown colt, you, way · What happens: grow, be, say, hear · To what, where: grown colt, way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, grown colt, you, way), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 colt | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 colt | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 colt | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 colt | det |
| 5 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 grown | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 full | punct |
| 7 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 colt | amod |
| 8 | colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 colt | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 colt | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Dapplegrim | Dapplegrim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 hear | punct |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 hear | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 hear | nsubj |
| 17 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | parataxis |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hear | obj |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 plainly | advmod |
| 20 | plainly | plainly | ADV | _ | 17 hear | advmod |
| 21 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 26 away | mark |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 away | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 away | cop |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 away | advmod |
| 25 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 away | advmod |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 hear | advmod |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 us | case |
| 28 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 away | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 hear | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | That | a grown colt | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | a grown colt | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | hear a condition, not said to happen | present | you | way | plainly property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | is | present | way | from us; away, far property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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